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Theories of creative conceptual combination hypothesize that, to generate highly creative concepts, one should attempt to combine source concepts that are very different from each other. While lab studies show a robust link between far combinations and increased novelty of concepts, empirical evidence that far combinations lead to more creative concepts (i.e., both more novel and of higher qual...

Today’s Web depends on a particular pact between sites and users: sites invest capital and labor to create and market a set of features, and users gain access to these features by giving up control of their data (photos, personal information, creative musings, etc.). This paper imagines a very different Web ecosystem, in which users retain control of their data and developers can justify their ...

Today’s Web depends on a particular pact between sites and users: sites invest capital and labor to create and market a set of features, and users gain access to these features by giving up control of their data (photos, personal information, creative musings, etc.). This paper imagines a very different Web ecosystem, in which users retain control of their data and developers can justify their ...

An interesting promise of Web 3.0 is the seamless integration of desktop and web spaces. Private data, locked until recently inside a user’s computer, can lead to the intelligent generation of web content. This paper presents an idea of how desktop and web data can be integrated in creative ways in the World Wide Web. As a proof of concept, an application which can profile a user based on his b...

An increasing number of technology enterprises are adopting cloud-native architectures to offer their web-based products, by moving away from privately-owned data-centers and relying exclusively on cloud service providers. As a result, cloud vendors have lately increased, along with the estimated annual revenue they share. However, in the process of selecting a provider’s cloud service over the...

The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Are Micro Firms Different?* We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel, we examine to what extent micro firms are different from other firms in terms...

Governance of Cloud-hosted Web Applications